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...stories are the same as your stories. They’re about the human heart and emotion,? director Gavin Hood said Sunday in his acceptance speech for his cinematic creation “Tsotsi,”? this year’s Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film??� Hood, who both wrote and directed “Tsotsi,”? communicates this vast power of ?human heart and emotion? through a hardened man’s single experience with an innocent child. During the film??��s hour-and-a-half run, the influence...
...fair to Adam Rapp, the film??��s main flaws probably result, not from any personal lack of skill, but from the type of narrative itself. The “family reunion”-type film is too often overwhelmed by sugary sentimentality. There is a temptation to present the story as a nicely-wrapped package of vague, universal redemption...
...African Americans today with Native American ancestry.” And the proof is in the pudding, as they say.The great ambition of BAF is two-fold: the hosts of the festival intend to explore black cultural heritage through multiple artistic media—theater, dance, music, film??��while also crossing countless national borders. They plan to pay homage to black art as a cohesive entity while also preserving the distinctive qualities of each culture represented. As Mgbako puts it, “We’re trying to achieve a good representation of what it means...
...says Assistant Professor of Visual and Environment Studies and of English J. D. Connor ’92. “These things reward the kind of attention that cultural studies scholars can bring to bear on them.”Connor, whose VES 195: “Hollywood Film??�� requires that students watch movies like “The Exorcist” and “Jaws,” bemoans the lack of attention given to television at Harvard. “It’s silly, I think. There should be at least one person...
...done something unprecedented: he made a movie-tie-in music video that doesn’t suck. Every other rapper who decides to promote a movie with a video seems to believe that “thou shalt splice together a lame performance scene with random clips from thy film??�� is the lost eleventh commandment, but not the King of the South...